break from normalcy

this week has been our summer vacation week. We picked up and left our Western PA home in favor of rural Wisconsin. The departure from the day to day has been very nice. The country air and the opportunity to embed in the scenery has been good medicine for the soul. I won't be sad to go back to work, but I will be sad to leave the country. The funny thing is that one could argue that our current living place is very rural, yet it distinctly lacks a certain bucolic splendor inherent in the northern part of the American Midwest.